May 25 Watch Can Mexico's health program teach the U.S. to lose weight? By PBS News Hour With obesity levels rivaling those seen in the United States, Mexico has launched a rigorous campaign to combat the epidemic, including taxes on sugary drinks and other high-calorie snack foods. How well is that strategy is working -- and what… Continue watching
Apr 22 PHOTO: Latin American leaders stand guard at Gabriel Garcia Marquez By News Desk Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos stood guard Monday in Mexico City, Mexico at the honoring ceremony for Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Hundreds waited outside the Palace of Beautiful Arts in Mexico City… Continue reading
Apr 18 Watch Mexican Catholics perform self-flagellation rituals in honor of Easter By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 17 Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez dies at 87 By Ariel Min Colombian novelist and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez died Thursday, according to a source close to the family. He was 87. The author, affectionately called “Gabo,” was well-known for defining the genre of magical realism. He exposed readers around the… Continue reading
Apr 09 SEC charges Hewlett-Packard for international bribes By Justin Scuiletti Hewlett-Packard will pay more than $108 million in a settlement agreement after the Securities and Exchange Commission charged the company Tuesday with bribing government officials to obtain public contracts. Continue reading
Apr 06 Watch Boomtowns spur economic growth in Mexico By PBS News Hour Mexico is now the third biggest trading partner of the United States. But with poverty afflicting half of the country's 120 million people, the country faces an uphill battle toward future prosperity. Correspondent Martin Fletcher reports from Querétaro.… Continue watching
Mar 28 Served with high lime prices, Mexican restaurants make lemonade By Margaret Myers On a sour note, Mexican restaurants in the U.S. are confronting a surge in lime prices that have forced some to make do without the essential ingredient on their menus. Continue reading
Mar 17 Mexican cartel moves beyond drugs, diversifies its illegal revenue streams By Talia Mindich The Mexican drug cartel known as the Knights Templar is supplementing illegal drug trade with the illegal trade of lucrative raw materials from the port of Lazaro Cardenas -- so much so that it has become their top source of… Continue reading
Mar 17 Border agent's apparent suicide and alleged actions shock his family By Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press MISSION, Texas -- Esteban Manzanares was working his regular day shift as a U.S. Border Patrol agent along the busiest stretch of Mexican border when a trio of Honduran immigrants spotted him and offered to surrender. A woman, her teenage… Continue reading
Feb 24 Watch Arrest of cartel leader Guzman, 'face of Mexican impunity,' sends message By PBS News Hour Continue watching